It’s a question we all have from time to  time. In fact, this Wednesday the member for  Don Valley West was aboard the Union Pearson Express from downtown to the airport. All very nice. That’s the estimable Rena Heer in the foreground.  This occasion permitted the announcement that the UP Express will open for revenue business on June 6, 2015. But for now, just imagine the ride and reflect on the launch of these trains for the Pan Am Games. The UP Express will take passengers from Union Station to Pearson Airport in 25 minutes, with trains leaving every 15 minutes. Average ticket prices will cost $27.50 per passenger. There are no deals like that in London.

Reader Jason Friesen is applauding Jon Burnside’s (Ward 26) push for stop sign cameras to catch people who roll through or just ignore stop signs. Mr. Friesen says it would be a great enforcement tool at the corner of Cleveland St. and Soudan Ave where he sees many people speed through his neighborhood. He says they then gun it to well above the posted 40 km hour limit north to get to Eglinton Ave. “This is a major walking route for children to go to Maurice Cody and it is scary how people drive in this neighbourhood,” he tell The Bulldog

Ryerson athletics has added a curling group to its roster for the 2015-2016 season. It will be comprised two teams which will train at the Leaside Curling Club on Millwood Rd. just behind the arena. According to the Ryerson Indy newspaper The Eyeopener, students will be able try out for men’s and women’s curling teams starting in September. The two teams will be coached by Perry Marshall, a career coach fully certified by the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP).

Puck is in net as Kiely (behind net) scores 2nd Flames goal assisted by Verkuyl

It was indeed a ding-dong game at Victoria Village Arena on Bermondsey Road as the Leaside Flames Peewee Golds beat Ted Reeve Tornadoes 6-3 to win their division in the North York Hockey League. The Flames dominated the game and it wasn’t until the third period that the Tornadoes got on the scoreboard. The Ted Reeves had persistence and fired a trio of shots past a tiring Flames goalkeeper Ian McDonald. He had held them scoreless that far. The team of Jack Kiely and William Verkuyl scored three times for the Flames. Kiely took the top spot for the first and fifth Flames markers with Verkuyl in for the assist. They switched on the sixth goal with Verkuyl potting the puck with an assist from Kiely. Kiely also scored the game’s first goal with an assist from Griffin Lind. Nigel Vickery and Alex Powter each scored single-handed goals,  Vickery in the first with 44 seconds left and Powter at 21 seconds of the second period.

Happy champions at game’s end. Well done guys.

Of course it is on the 25th of April, not May. Thanks to Lorna Krawchuk for noticing. More 

The City knows it as the  annual spring maintenance of the Don Valley Parkway but residents of South Bayview know the real name. It’s called a flood of cars onto our high street this weekend. The detour will also slow down traffic on other roads. It’s still better than shopping anywhere else. But it will be busy. The City of Toronto’s Transportation Services Division will perform maintenance activities on the Don Valley Parkway  from 8 p.m. Friday, April 24 to 6 .a.m. Sunday, April 26

Fire officials have offered a fragmentary bit of information about the house explosion in Scarborough. A fire official says it appears that a “volatile, ignitable liquid” is to blame for the explosion that rocked the residential neighbourhood in the east end yesterday afternoon. He did not say gasoline, but that’s what jumps to mind. Even at that it would seem to require a bathtub full to create that type of blast.

Jon Burnside (Ward 26) has spoken with the The South Bayview Bulldog about the need for stop-sign cameras everywhere, including Leaside. There is a growing view at City Hall, led by the Councillor, that the only way drivers will observe stop signs faithfully is to increase the likelihood of getting charged.